Programatically create 'Send this user a a private message link' for user pages

Question

I know that this question had been asked several times, but it seems like all existing answers only apply to ealier versions of Privatemsg module. I am running 7.x-2.x-dev and I would like to programatically render the "Send this user a private message" link. The PHP code is supposed to be the $block['content'] of a programatically created block that will be displayed on user pages.

Somebody suggested to use

if ($account = menu_get_object('user') ) {
      if ($url = privatemsg_get_link(array($account))) {
        $block['content'] = l(t('Send this user a private message'), $url, array('query' => drupal_get_destination()));
      }
}

but this is doing absolutely nothing.

I also want that the link is only displayed if the viewed user has enabled the "Enable private messages" option in his/her account settings and if the viewing user has permission to send messages. Any ideas how to achieve this?

Answer 1

For an example of how to do this, you can see the integration with the Author Pane module in privatemsg.author-pane.inc:

  global $user;
  $account = $variables['account'];

  if ($account->uid != $user->uid) {
    $url = privatemsg_get_link($account);
    if (!empty($url)) {
      $variables['privatemsg'] = l('<span>' . t('Send PM') . '</span>', $url, array('attributes' => array('class' => array('author-pane-link'), 'title' => t('Send @name a private message', array('@name' => privatemsg_recipient_format($account, array('plain' => TRUE))))), 'html' => TRUE));
    }
  }

This isn't a cut-and-paste solution, but since Author Pane provides a block that allows you to PM given users, and this respects the Privatemsg permissions (the link should not be rendered if the recipient does not have appropriate permissions to receive or the sender does not have permission to send), this should be a useful reference.

Answer 2

Hope this will help you,

In Drupal 7, you can use privatemsg_get_link.

• privatemsg_get_link - Returns a link to send message form for a specific users.

    if ($enabled_private_messages) {//check user private message settings
      if ($account = menu_get_object('user')) {// Get user object. You can also use user_load to get user object.
        if (is_object($account) && privatemsg_user_access('write privatemsg')) {
          if ($url = privatemsg_get_link(array($account))) {
            return l(t('contact user'), $url, array('query' => drupal_get_destination()));
          }
        }
      }
    }